- an example of best practice - Lancashire's Policy (English Law shares the wording of the Northern Irish Order), note that this isn't perfect but does illustrate that a good working policy is possible

- personal experience

ask permission to record the session or take notes (pause outside straight after and add anything you missed). We would love to see your minutes as they are a great help to other home educators attending these meetings, or working on their written responses.

Be cautious if they offer to answer questions that you send after the meeting. Questions sent in after the first NEELB meeting were treated as a Freedom of Information Request. These can only be used to gain sight of information (generally documents) held by boards, so we are highly unlikely to get answers on many of the questions we would like to ask. See the end of the first NEELB Minutes for the questions asked.